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 Ceramic, heal thyselfA new computer simulation has revealed a self-healing behavior in a common ceramic that may lead to development of radiation-resistant materials for nuclear power plants and waste storage. |
 Researchers design copper connections for high-speed computingAs computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless card. And as the integrated circuits become more ... |
 DNA technique yields 3-D crystalline organization of nanoparticlesIn an achievement some see as the "holy grail" of nanoscience, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first time used DNA to guide the creation of three-dimensional, ... |
Plumbing Carbon NanotubesScientists have determined how to connect carbon nanotubes together like water pipes, a feat that may lead to a whole new group of bottom-up-engineered nanostructures and devices. |
 Smaller is stronger -- now scientists know whyAs structures made of metal get smaller -- as their dimensions approach the micrometer scale (millionths of a meter) or less -- they get stronger. Scientists discovered this phenomenon 50 years ago while measuring ... |
 IMEC increases performance of high-k metal gate planar CMOS and FinFETsAt today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates ... |
 Team develops novel method for nanostructured polymer thin filmsAll researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs (chemically distinct polymers linked together) in order ... |
 Researchers find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scalingIn 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't manipulate atoms. However, ... |
Sematech Reveals Details on Practical High-K Metal Gate Systems for 45nm And BeyondBuilding on their successful CMOS solution for gate‑first, thermally stable, high-k dual metal gates, SEMATECH researchers have released further data that portends a new era in which future transistor scaling is dominated ... |
 Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Power, High-Performance 45nm Logic ChipsFujitsu today announced the development of a platform technology for 45 nanometer generation LSI logic chips, which combines technologies for low power consumption and high-performance interconnect. |
 New research reveals subtlety of superconductivityArgonne scientists helped lead the superconducting revolution 20 years ago this month with their landmark solution of the structure of the most widely known high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7. ... |
 Combating Friction and StictionMicro-electro-mechanical systems, popularly referred to as MEMS, in small electronic devices often fail because of adhesion and stiction – the attractive force between the surfaces of interacting parts. University ... |
High-quality helium crystals show supersolid behaviorHigh-quality, single-crystal, ultra-cold solid helium exhibits supersolid behavior, suggesting that this frictionless solid flow is not a consequence of defects and grain boundaries in poor-quality, polycrystalline, solid ... |
 Nanoparticles self-assemble through chemical lithographyNanoparticles – while possessing some amazing properties of strength and power – are also delicate little things, when it comes to manipulating them for use in nanodevices. Many scientists consider that the ... |
Stress Management: X-Rays Reveal Si Thin-Film DefectsPile-ups, bad on the freeway, also are a hazard for the makers of high-performance strained-silicon semiconductor devices. A sensitive X-ray diffraction imaging technique developed by researchers at the National Institute ... |
